After Blackhat and DEFCON have blown over, come join us for WOOT! – the first USENIX Workshop On Offensive Technologies in Boston on August 6th, colocated with USENIX Security 07. We realize this is extremely short notice for authors (just over a month), but are encouraging those presenting at DEFCON, Blackhat, and elsewhere to submit [...]
Today’s guest-blogger post is from Aaron Campbell, long-time Arbor hacker and one of Canada’s finest: Lint first appeared (outside of Bell Labs) in the seventh version (V7) of the UNIX operating system in 1979. 27 years later, you’d think static code analysis would be dead. But nothing could be further from the truth. This much [...]
USENIX security and Blackhat collided for the first time this year. While the rest of my coworkers bounced between parties^H^H^H^H presentations in Vegas, I sat in a Vancouver hotel room reviewing papers with a program committee between talks. The divide between those who break and those who build was never starker – with the exception [...]